Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Your name?" George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. — Al Murray Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. — Alexander Lebedev Copy Share Image
“If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you.” — James Lingard Copy Share Image
“Kids in my history class pulled out their cell phones and turned them on. I did the same, and as we all… — Laura McNeal Copy Share Image
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was a general in the Venezuelan army and served as the President of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958.… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border. — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Couldnt you wait until at least the All-Star break to have the franchise suffer its worse loss in its storied history? Bill… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. — Tom Osborne Copy Share Image
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
